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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by matthewdgreen on Thursday June 19, 2025 @12:10PM (#44319985)
Cherry-picking friendly studies is one of the go-to moves of the rationalist community.

You can convince a lot of people that you've done your homework when the medium is "an extremely blog post with a bunch of studies attached" even if the studies themselves aren't representative of reality.

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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by tasty_freeze on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:37PM (#44321825)
Is there any reason you are singling out the rationalist community? Is that not a common failure mode of all groups and all people?

BTW, this isn't a defensive posture on my part: I am not plugged in enough to even have an opinion on any rationalist community, much less identify as one.

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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by catgary on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:18AM (#44325178)
Oh. It’s literally the main stereotype about rationalists. It’s a very blog-heavy subculture.
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